Online Job Search and Unemployment Insurance during the Great Recession
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The 2007‐2009 U.S. recession led to large increases in the potential duration of unemployment benefits (PBD), which could decrease job search effort. I measure search effort by job applications on the popular website Careerbuilder.com. Using an event study and nonlinearities in the relationship between PBD and the unemployment rate, I find that a one‐week increase in PBD decreases state‐level applications by 0.4%, implying that benefit extensions led to a 29% decline in applications for the median state. I find no consistent evidence for greater jobseeker selectivity about jobs. This implies that PBD increases unemployment chiefly through decreased job search effort.
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